Archive for October 30, 2006

Not all bad news for CT prisons and the prison system, as this story tells of how Maryland Corrections is looking to Connecticut to curb gang violence in its prisons.

Acting Division of Correction Commissioner John Rowley said he sent Maryland corrections officials to Connecticut because the
state’s corrections department created a gang management program in
1994, after prison officials found that gang members had become a
dangerous and difficult population inside the state’s prisons.

The Connecticut Department of Correction’s Security Risk Group
program collects and evaluates security-related gang intelligence to
prevent violence inside the state’s prisons.

In Maryland, officials have implemented a new measure aimed at
reducing prison gang violence at the medium-security Maryland
Correctional Training Center near Hagerstown. The facility started
confining inmates together "a few months ago," after they were
identified as members of the same gang, Rowley said.